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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wait for an open table during peak hours. Families, couples, and even police officers crowd the joint for hours—some coming for take-out, others staying for a sit-down meal. “We rely on word of mouth. We don’t spend one dime on advertising,” Reno says. “If you have great food, people will find it.”The Hoxallari brothers’ popularity and success is well-deserved. The menu, scrawled on a blackboard in pink and white chalk, is a haven for hungry students...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mama Mia, Basta Pasta | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...artificial limbs and artificial hearts but what about artificial immune systems? Add another notch to the test tube: scientists at VaxDesign, a five-year-old biotechnology company based in Orlando, Florida, have created a simulated human immune system, called the Modular Immune In Vitro Construct (MIMIC for short). The dime-sized immune system can predict how humans will respond to new vaccines. The goal? To streamline vaccine research and hasten the eradication of global killers, such as AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Immunity in a Test Tube | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Recruit admissions? Not even going there. I totally understand legacy preferential treatment. The Allston campus isn’t going to build itself, now is it? But most of these athletes won’t bring Harvard a dime...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: Athletic Recruiting | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

Below you'll find some of the best free Web apps compared with similar retail products. With new programs popping up every week--some of which are available only through social-networking sites like Facebook--it pays to check out the freebies before spending a dime. And you can keep the change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Shrink-Wrapped Software Dead? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...into action,” Rakoff says.To convey its tone, he cites a YouTube clip of his favorite depressing song. The video sets images from the Great Depression and the First World War against Bing Crosby’s rendition of “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” Though he finds the song “surprisingly applicable” to the looming economic recession, Rakoff is more upbeat about the recent electoral turnaround in Florida, claiming to be overjoyed. He’s a resident of New York City since 1983 and a dual...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From NPR: Books and Tape | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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